TRANSGRESSIONS 
Six evenings, six plays-in-process: staged readings of new works.
May 2-6, 2018 | 7pm
HB Playwrights Theatre
124 Bank Street, NYC
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A conversation with 
Barbara Cassidy and Shonna Trinch
Monday, March 26, 7:30PM
HB Playwrights Theater | 124 Bank Street
Suggested donation: $5-$10
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“Seeing Rape” is a course at John Jay College of Criminal Justice taught by Shonna Trinch (a linguist) and Barbara Cassidy (a playwright) examining sexual violence across various disciplines. The students’ final projects are original short plays, from which Trinch and Cassidy choose 5-10 to be performed in the spring by professional actors.
Join Shonna and Barbara for a conversation about the work they do to foster an awareness of the power of creative visions both to analyze and re-imagine the world.
Moderated talk will be followed by a Q&A.
Alicia Rodis, Co-Founder of Intimacy Directors International
For years Intimacy Directors have been choreographing intimate moments & advocating for consensual workspaces in the rehearsal room. In this shifting culture, Intimacy Direction is now becoming a new standard practice. Chat with Alicia Rodis, co-founder of Intimacy Directors International, whose company is at the forefront of this shift. From intimate tension to a tender embrace to full on simulated sex, a conversation of how to tell these stories safely and dynamically.
An evening of songs from the musical theater works of Leonard Bernstein during the worldwide #Bernsteinat100 celebration
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Leonard Bernstein – composer, conductor, educator, musician, cultural ambassador, and humanitarian – is one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century. Bernstein’s steadfast belief in the power of art to lift, transform, delight and educate was his antidote to a world full of violence and unpredictability. A charter member of HB’s Playwrights Foundation and a longtime friend to HB’s founders, HB Studio is thrilled to present this benefit evening with Broadway stars in a tribute to his work, during the worldwide #Bernsteinat100 celebration.
Featuring remarks by ALEXANDER BERNSTEIN, LONNY PRICE and the talents of Broadway stars STEPHEN DEROSA (BWAY: On the Town, Betrayal, The Nance, Hairspray, Into the Woods), STEVEN ENG (OFF BWAY: Pacific Overtures, Chee-Chee; WEST END: The King and I), MELISSA ERRICO (BWAY: Anna Karenina, My Fair Lady, High Society, Dracula, White Christmas, Amour), ALI EWOLDT (BWAY: Phantom of the Opera, The King and I, Les Misérables), CHILINA KENNEDY (BWAY: Beautiful, Jesus Christ Superstar), TRACEY MICHAILIDIS (BWAY: Beauty and the Beast; OFF-BWAY: Ethel Sings; NAT’L TOUR: Fun Home), CARL-MICHAEL OGLE (Regional: Showboat (Citi Performing Arts Center), The Wiz (Fiddlehead Theatre Company), West Side Story(FTC), ELIZA SIMPSON (Off-Broadway: The Woodsman (59E59 Theaters), NY: The Mysteries (The Flea Theater), Kapowi Gogo (The PIT, Time Out NY Critics Pick), Three Sisters (HIT)), CHRISTINE TOY JOHNSON (BWAY: The Music Man (Revival), Grease! (Revival), Chu Chem), and TONY YAZBECK (BWAY: Prince of Broadway, Finding Neverland, On the Town, Chicago, White Christmas, Gypsy, A Chorus Line), with musical directors MICHAEL DANSICKER (BWAY: The Times They Are A-Changin’, Piaf, Good, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Iceman Cometh, Singin’ in the Rain) and Grammy Award-winning JOHN MCDANIEL (BWAY: Bonnie and Clyde, Catch Me If You Can, Brooklyn, Annie Get Your Gun ,Taboo, Chicago, Grease, Patti LuPone on Broadway, Company). Directed by ROBERT MCQUEEN, esteemed HB faculty and Director of New Musical Development for Toronto’s Musical Stage Company. McQueen’s many directing credits include Man of La Mancha (Startford Festival), Forest Boy (NYMF), The Wild Party, Falsettos, Caroline, Or Change, The Light in the Piazza, The Magic Flute (Vancouver Opera), Hair and Pal Joey.
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By Julie McKee 
Directed by Jean Randich
A Staged Reading
Saturday & Sunday, January 27 & 28 | 7 pm
First Floor Studio | 120 Bank Street, New York
Free | RSVP at eventbrite.com
1942. New Zealand is under threat of a Japanese invasion. Louise MacGregor, formidable scientist, is sent in search of Pterocladia Lucida, a simple seaweed to aid the war effort. May Smith, an untried youngster, is plucked to assist the prickly botanist as a sketch artist. But having only recently discovered her Maori heritage, May has other questions and struggles to meet Louise’s rigorous demands. Inspired by Lucy B. Moore’s wartime mission to scour the wilds of New Zealand’s coast for the weed, “The Secret Life of Seaweed” tells the story of two women who learn to feel deeply about each other in a time when expressing feelings of unbearable emotional sadness was forbidden for the good of all.
Featuring James Hallett*, Siw Laurent, Johanna Leister*, Donna Svennevik, with stage directions by Andrew Plimpton.
The Secret Life of Seaweed is a commission by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of Science and Technology and The Ensemble Studio Theatre.
*Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity/Aftra.
*Photo credit Donna Svennevik
Please join us Sunday, January 14, at 3pm in the HB Playwrights Theatre for a Memorial for Earle Hyman. Space is limited, please RSVP by January 9 to Sara Kuntz, via email (skuntz@hbstudio.org) or phone (212-989-6540).
Meet the Catalan Artists 
Copresented by HB Studio and Institut Ramon Llull
Featuring five socially engaged female artists from Catalonia who will be sharing presentations of their work:
Lali Álvarez (playwright, poet, stage director)
Cláudia Cedó (playwright & director)
Anna Giribet (theater artist & programmer)
Ariadna Peya (choreographer, dancer, teacher)
Xesca Salvà (set designer & theater artist)
Presentations will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 | 7pm
HB Playwrights Theatre | 124 Bank Street
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LALI ÁLVAREZ: I work as a playwright, poet, stage director and community-projects developer, having studied philosophy at Universitat de Barcelona and stage directing and playwriting at Institut del Teatre. I often participate in text theatre, street theatre, and in community projects, with my work revolving around social and political issues. I am the current artistic director at the HUI BASA Collective, through which I hold the resident artist position at Nau Ivanow in Barcelona. The collective is now working on Tha Zpar (The Stand Still) a street-theatre show about how we manage fear and violence, which will premiere in September 2018 at FiraTàrrega, and on Privilege, a theatre documentary about the concept of privilege, to premiere in July 2019 at the Barcelona Grec Festival. As a playwright and stage director, I have put on Ragazzo (2015) and Barcelona (against the wall) (2016), both based on true stories, and both on tour. I have been honored with various awards such as the Serra d’Or Critics Award (best show 2015 for Ragazzo) and the Recomana Critics Award (best show for young audience 2016 for Ragazzo).
www.lalialvarezgarriga.com
By Jośe Rivera.
Directed by David Deblinger.
Two Nights Only:
Friday, Dec. 1, and Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017 | 7PM
HB Playwrights Theatre | 124 Bank Street
$250 Premiere Tickets
$125 Priority Tickets
$25 HB Student Tickets
Join HB for a staged reading of Jose Rivera’s fanciful play, following the adventures of Maricela and her brother Riccardo as they save the world from weather catastrophe. Directed by David Deblinger, HB faculty member and co-founder of the Labyrinth Theater Company.
Featuring Vanessa Aspillaga – star of the Pulitzer-prize winning drama ANNA IN THE TROPICS on Broadway.
Also featuring the talents of Oscar A. L. Cabrera, Paula Pizzi, Johnny Sanchez, Ron Orbach, Glenda Delli, Beethovan Oden, and Satoshi Deleanu.
Don’t miss this exciting and fun, whirl-wind adventure! A portion of proceeds from this reading will be donated towards The Hispanic Federation’s UNIDOS Disaster Relief & Recovery Program to meet Hurricane Maria-related needs and recovery in Puerto Rico.
Book & Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Composer: Frederick Loewe
7PM | Fri, Sat & Sun | Nov 10, 11 & 12, 2017
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank St. | FREE
Directed by Robert McQueen
This autumn HB Studio presents a celebration of the work of musical theater writers Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Not Far From Where We Were Before features a company of actors from the HB Musical Theater Studio Practice program. The evening includes scenes and songs from Lerner and Loewe’s most iconic musicals, such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, as well as earlier, lesser known work. Join us for an evening that honors two of the most important, beloved and celebrated voices in the American musical theater canon.
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Ginger Grace performs in Rob Asaro’s Lost Again at Chain NYC Film Festival 2025 (part of their “Shorts Block” called Remembrance) on Saturday, August 16.
Home Testing, developed by Andrew Matthews in Playwriting class at HB Studio, runs at Foothills Performing Arts Center from September 19-21.
Krit McClean stars in the world premiere of Achilles in Arcadia at Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles from August 9 to September 21.
Moshe Henderson directs Off the Shelf Series: Reading #3, with Jack Mallett, Luke Kissick, and Katie Van Riper, at Helen Gallagher Studio Theatre on August 9.
Lluvia Almanza performs in Bargaining Chip at New Perspectives Theatre Company, as part of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, the 2025 Meganne George Women’s Work Short Play Festival, from August 4-9.
Noa Worsek Rosenberg performs in Indoor Kids at The Players Theatre on August 8.
Charly Wenzel performs in Sweet & Lucky: Echo at Denver Center for the Performing Arts from August 13 to October 5.
Catch the film premiere of A Little Jaded by Kelley Lord, with Nikki Montano and Tim O’Reilly, at The Local NY on August 26.
Kathleen Files performs in Barren Landscape at Elmwood Playhouse on July 25-27.
Sandra Weldon performs in the cabaret show Don’t Tell Mama at 92NY on July 22.
Matthew Cade directs and performs in his play The Celestial Field, alongside Yule Donald and Anna Kaliuzhnaia, at New York Theater Festival on July 24, July 26, and July 27.
Basement Theatrics presents a staged reading of Lysistrata, directed by Moshe Henderson, at HB Playwrights Theatre on July 19 at 2pm & 7pm (pay-what-you-wish).
Philip Cioffari‘s play Questions I Keep Asking Myself, starring Deirdre Hering and Supreet Mahanti, will be presented at Chain Theatre, as part of the Summer One-Act Fest, on July 18 and July 19; use code ASK25 for ticket discount.
An additional performance of Philip Cioffari‘s play Questions I Keep Asking Myself, starring Deirdre Hering and Supreet Mahanti, has been added at Chain Theatre, as part of the Summer One-Act Fest, on July 31.
Dafna Rosenblum plays Robin in The Merry Wives of Windsor with Bird-on-a-Cliff Theater Company in Woodstock at their Shakespeare Festival from July 25 – August 31.
Kevin Cheng performs in his play Uptown Express at Chain Theatre, as part of the Summer One-Act Fest, on July 12, July 17, and July 23; use code UPTOWN25 for 25% off tickets.
Craig Perkins stars in his play Christine or Dark Phantom Sex Goddess (Depending on Time of Day) at Hudson Guild Theater, as part of New York Theater Festival, on July 15 and July 18-19.
Anya Zhang stars in her play Dissolving Boundaries at Chain Theatre on July 16, July 26, and July 31; use code BOUND25 for 20% online ticket discount.
Elise Hansen performs in The Golden Ibburs, part of New York Theater Festival, at Hudson Guild Theater from June 26-29.
Ginger Grace appears in Frank Tangredi’s The Innocence of Eli Druce, part of the Greenhouse Ensemble Summer Reading Series, at St. Michael’s Church on June 28 at 3pm.
Moshe Henderson directs his play Velvet Rage: A Queer-Ass Play at HB Playwrights Theatre from June 19-22; use discount code YASSHB for $15 off.
Tatiana Korinfsky directs Shostakovich in New York, adapted by Korinfsky, at Polaris North Studio from June 27-29.
Gabriel Robinson performs in Once On This Island at Schneider Theater at the Bloomington Center for the Arts from October 2-26.
Kevin Cheng stars with Elizabeth McBryde in Cheng’s play Dear Diary at The Players Theatre from June 12-15 as part of the 14th Annual Short Play Festival – use code CAST for ticket discount.
Raymond Turturro‘s film The Swan Way runs at the Cinema Village Theatre on June 16 as part of the Manhattan Film Festival.
Riven, an eco-theatre play associate produced by Covi Loveridge Brannan, runs at the site-specific location Sure We Can from June 13-27.
Sandra Weldon performs at the Don’t Tell Mama’s cabaret show on June 24.
Pat Dwyer performs his play THURBER: Not Unmeaningless, presented by The Shakespeare Forum, at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 through June 7.
Lorna Courtney stars in the return of Heathers the Musical at New World Stages from June 22 – September 28.
Youlim Nam directs the return of her play Just a Yellow Cab in New York City, starring Delil Baran and Han Na Shin, at Theatre Row from June 18-22.
Aarti Tiwari performs in Madhuri Sheka’s House of Joy at Seattle Public Theatre through June 8.
Arezu Riaz performs in Kisses and Bullets, one of five short films included at Shorts: Hopes and Dreams at the Shorts Theater at Spring Studios for the Tribeca Film Festival from June 8-15.
Deedee Woche stars in Dolores by Edward Allan Baker at Stephanie Feury Theatre for Hollywood Fringe Festival from June 8-29.
Chris Jaymes is a recurring character on Season 5 of Law & Order: Organized Crime, out now on NBC and Peacock.
Wynn McClenahan performs in Doughboys at The Vino Theatre from April 24-30.
A table reading of Velvet Rage: A Queer-Ass Play, written by Moshe Henderson and performed by Henderson, Seann Gallagher, Royce Johnson, and Zaq Latino, will take place at HB Playwrights Theatre on April 12.
Shyla Idris performs in Adam Driver at Chain Theatre as part of New York City Fringe from April 5-19.
Lynda Crawford has three plays in performance – The Audit at Urban Stages (performances through March 16) and both The Wonderer and Artificial Light at the Chain Theatre’s Spark Theatre Festival (single performance March 16).
Praying for Shakespeare, written and performed by Eric Weiner, plays at The Barrow Group Solo Show Festival on April 6 at 3:30pm.
Kathleen Files performs in An Ideal Husband at Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, NY, through March 30.
Ginger Grace appears in her interactive performance piece The First Ladies Coalition for Women’s History Month at the Moving Forward Together: Women Inspiring Generations Festival in Queens, NY from March 8-22, as well as Dave Brubeck Hall in Wilton, CT, on March 23.
Michelle Park stars in Truth Be Told at The Gene Frankel Theatre through March 9.
Mio Nakanishi performs in Avenue Q at Cultural Arts Playhouse on March 9 at 7pm and March 15 at 8pm.
John L. Payne performs in an upcoming production of The Taming of the Shrew with Frog and Peach Theater Company at American Theatre of Actors through March 23.
Chad Kaydo‘s play I’m Repeating Myself finishes its run at The Brick from March 4-6 at 8pm.
Techno Diva (UK link), directed by and starring Mare Costello, begins streaming on Amazon Prime.
Andrew R. Heinze has been awarded a New Jersey State Council for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, a $17,000 award to be used for further artistic exploration.